Rhondalyn Cornett, president of the Indianapolis Education Association, resigned two days after the midterm election over allegations of serious financial mismanagement dating back to June.

The Indiana State Teachers Association announced Saturday that Cornett “complied with a demand that she resign effective Nov. 8” after an audit ordered by the statewide teachers union revealed “serious financial mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $100,000 in funds over a period of several years.”

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The problem stemmed from a complaint filed by an IEA member in June, months before the Nov. 6 election involving several IEA-sponsored Indianapolis School Board candidates, as well as a $220 million union-backed tax hike.

Voters approved the tax increase and put two out of three IEA endorsed candidates on the school board without knowledge of Cornett’s alleged misdeeds, which the ISTA did not explain.

“In June of 2018, an IEA member filed a complaint with the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) regarding concerns over IEA’s operations. ISTA immediately opened an investigation into IEA’s operations including a complete review of its election procedures and a comprehensive financial audit, which was completed Nov. 8,” according to the ISTA statement, published by RTV6.

“The audit indicates serious financial mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $100,000 in funds over a period of several years by IEA President Rhondalyn Cornett. Local association finances are handled by duly elected local leaders who are responsible for properly managing their finances,” it continued.

“Because of the IEA president’s failure to meet her obligations toward sound financial management of members’ dues dollars, she has complied with a demand that she resign effective Nov. 8. New local leadership has assumed control and are prepared to deal with the issue and move the Association forward in a positive direction.”

The internal audit was sent to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Organized Crime Section, though “ISTA does not know if any crimes were committed.”

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IEA Vice President Ronald Swann, who helped lead the investigation into his predecessor, is now in control. The union is touting transparency for coming clean about Cornett’s alleged money schemes and forwarding the results of its audit to the police, but local critics are pointing out serious problems with the situation and raising a lot of unanswered questions the ISTA would undoubtedly prefer to avoid.

“Pardon me if I have a few questions, and not just the obvious one as to why did all this happen right after the school board election, where the Association backed three candidates, two of which won?” Indianapolis political pundit Abdul Sakim-Shabazz wrote for WIBC.

Shabazz questioned when exactly the ISTA learned of the allegations against Cornett, and why the IEA wasn’t immediately placed on leave. He also questioned whether Cornett had access to IEA funds during the investigation, as well as the timing of the audit.

“If the allegations of misconduct were reported to the ISTA in June, why were the results of the ISTA’s ‘audit’ released two days after the election? Does this present a cover-up?” Shabazz wrote.

Shabazz pointed to other important yet missing pieces of information.

“Did any IEA-endorsed candidates know of the allegations? … Did they accept donations from a PAC associated with ISTA while knowledgeable of the alleged misconduct?” Shabazz questioned. “If IEA-endorsed candidates just now heard about the allegations, will they return ISTA-affiliated donations and renounce the IEA’s endorsement?”

Shabazz, a longtime critic of the union’s dirty politics, also highlighted the recent departure of ISTA President Teresa Meredith and questioned whether the Indianapolis scandal played a role.

“Will ISTA comply with any applicable open records requests and commit to answering teachers’ questions and media inquiries with transparency, including providing documents related to the ‘audit’ of ISTA finances?” Shabazz wrote. “I will let you know if I hear anything.”